{"id":6976,"date":"2021-11-22T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=6976"},"modified":"2021-11-22T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:37:51","slug":"unable-to-find-correct-drivers-for-dell-wireless-1450","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/unable-to-find-correct-drivers-for-dell-wireless-1450\/15077.html","title":{"rendered":"Unable To Find Correct Drivers For Dell Wireless 1450"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everybody,<\/p>\n<p>I recently upgraded my computer and, in doing so, decided to upgrade from my old Dell wireless card to a new D-Link one. For whatever reason, the D-Link gave me extremely high pings in games and made it basically impossible to play at all. I returned the D-Link card and decided to use the Dell one again, however, though it worked perfectly on my old Windows XP Professional system, I cannot seem to find drivers that will work with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I have tried installing the Windows XP drivers from Dell&#8217;s support site, however, Windows states that the driver cannot be used because it is not digitally signed. I also tried a work around on another website which enabled Windows 7&#8217;s test mode, however, it didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>The exact device is a Dell Wireless 1450 Dual-band USB Wi-Fi adapter. (802.11 a\/b\/g). As it is an old device, I didn&#8217;t expect to find drivers specifically for Windows 7, however, it seems that I can&#8217;t even find a Windows Vista driver that would work. Lastly, I have tried looking up the chipset number to get a manufacturer&#8217;s driver, but all I could find was packages for Linux as opposed to Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Comguy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: gray; font-size: small;\">MSI B75MA-P45 Motherboard<br \/>\nIntel Core i3 3.10GHz<br \/>\n8GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM<br \/>\nSAPPHIRE AMD Radeon 5770<br \/>\nAMD HD Audio<br \/>\n2TB Hitachi HDD (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit)<br \/>\nLG DVD-RW SATA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":19},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6976","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/6976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}